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ROSIE
Rosie is a young lurcher bitch.
OUR story begins in early August 2009 but what happened to her before that we may never know unless someone recognises her from these pictures.
I work as a veterinary surgeon in a busy mixed practice in Dumfries. One morning whilst I was operating in the theatre Helen, one of our nurses presented an unimaginable looking animal on our prep table. It was a black dog or should I say a dog skeleton with skin and hair. It was covered in a vast quantity of smelly faecal matter. It, the dog that is, was breathing still and the deep sunken black eyes were half open focusing on nothing.
The local council workers had found it tied up inside a double bin liner and pushed under the bushes on one of the traffic islands on the outskirts of Dumfries. Karen, one of the workers noticed that the bag was moving. She pulled it free from the rose bushes and discovered that it was a dog and it was still alive. She wrapped it in her jumper and shouted for help. It was pure fluke that these people had been assigned to clearing that area on that day. They rushed it to the surgery just a few miles away.
Our nurses set to, cleaning up the little body with warm soapy water. Intravenous fluids were prepared and I introduced a catheter into one of the veins in her front leg. All the while we were talking to her and stroking her hoping that the stimulation would encourage her to live. This was not the time to die! The warm fluids started to flow into her malnourished withered little body giving her immediate life support.
ONE YEAR ON
Now nearly 17 kg Rosie lives life to the full with her two buddies Biddie and Inca. She torments them a bit egging them on to play but the oldies are content just walking on. She is still a bit of a thief and loves anything that even resembles food. She took a liking to candles for a while - we now have to keep them all locked away unless they are alight. Screel is still her favorite hill, always beets us all to the top and has a mad session when she gets there. She will be trying a bigger mountain soon I hope so I will let you know how that goes. She is also a bit of a poser in front of the camera so watch out for more images on her showcase.
TWO YEARS ON
Still 17 kg she is slim and fit, runs like the wind. The troop of 4 plus me set off every morning early early. Biddie the old collie even though she has had a major set back with her kidney function still manages to keep up with the other 3. Rosie is still a thief given the opportunity of unattended morsels or whole steak pies. She is getting quite gray around the gills though but I think that is as a result of her history rather than her age. She still loves everybody and wants to play and chase most of the other dogs she meets.
BIDDY PASSES ON
In October we, that is Rosie, Biddy and myself took off to the Outer Hebrides for fun and photographs. We did have some fun on the wide open beaches of UIST until Biddy decided to try out some of the local mushrooms. At the moment I am too upset to tell you about the rest.
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